† mootmann.
Obsolete.
1. A law student who argues a moot case; a mooter.
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society > law > study of law > [noun] > student of the law
mootman1600
jurist1691
stagiary1836
1600 E. Coke Les Reports iii. To Rdr. sig. D iv So in the profession of the Law, there are Mootemen, (which are those that argue Readers Cases in houses of Chauncerie..). Of Mootemen after eight yeres Studie or thereabouts, are chosen Vtter~barristers.
1661 J. Howell Twelve Several Treat. 391 In the Constitutions of England, there are two incontroulable Maximes, whereof the meanest mootman that hath but saluted Littleton cannot be ignorant.
1671 E. Chamberlayne Angliæ Notitia (ed. 5) ii. 419 Out of these Mootmen are chosen Readers for the Inns of Chancery.
1797 Encycl. Brit. XII. 271/2 There is a bailiff, or surveyor of the moots, annually chosen by the bench, to appoint the moot-men for the inns of chancery.
2. = elector n. 3. rare.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > sovereign ruler or monarch > other independent rulers > [noun] > German elector
elisor1433
elector?1530
prince-elector1548
corvester1552
mootman1654
electoral1692
1654 R. Vilvain tr. Enchiridium Epigr. vi. lxxvii. 149 The 7 German Princes or Mootmen, which the Pope constituted to meddle in electing the Emperor.
3. A person who attends a moot or assembly. rare.
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1860 G. A. Sala in Cornhill Mag. Feb. 427 Moot~men..summoned to commons by horn-blow.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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